Improvement in shot-cases and distributers



tutti@ .%tai5 SINCLAIR BOUTON,

or SEGUIN, TEXAS.

Letters Patent No. 110,625, dated January 3, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOT-CASES AND DlSTRlBUTERS.

The Schedule referred oo in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SINCLAIn Bootrox, of Seguin,

in the county of Guadeloupe and State of Texas,.

have inventedpa new and improved Shot-Gase and Distributer;l and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to malte and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification.

Figure 1 represents a vertical section of my improved shotcase and distributer, x x, iig. 2, being the section-line.

Figure 2 is a plan view, partly in section, of the same, y y, fig. 1, being the section line.

I1ignre`3 is a detail horizontal section of part of the same, the line z z, iig. l, indicating the plane ot' section. l

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention relates to a new receptacle for holding several grades ot' shot, and to an adjustable distributing device for the same.

Its object is to enable traders to keep the several kinds oizgrades of shot in one receptacle, but sothat suitable quantity of' any one kind can be readily and conveniently measured out.

`A in the drawing represents a bowl-shaped vessel, supported on suitable standards or posts, B B.

' The center of the' vessel A contains a fixed vertical tube, C, from which radial partitions, a at, extend to the circumference of the vessel, as is clearly indicated in fig. 2.

By these partitions the vessel A is divided into -a'suitable number of sector-shaped compartments D is the cover of the bowl, placed loosely upon the same, and provided with an opening of about the, size of one compartment, b, so lthat by turning the cover any one compartment may be opened for inspection.

compartment b.

All the apertures c are closed by a tube, E, which is arranged within C, and suspended from a shank or post,F, which extends upward throughthe top of the bowl.

A spring, d, of suitable kind, draws up the post F and tube E.

The tube E has in` its side one aperture, e, which is in line with the opening in the cover D.

The cover is by a feather, f, connected with the post F, so that it can only Ybe turned together with the same and the tube E, allowing, however, the in dependent vertical adjustment of E and F.

rIhus it is that the aperture e remains always in line with the opening in the cover D, they (the opening c, and that iu D) being originally arranged to be so in line, and consequently whichever compartment is under the opening of the cover D is also in line with the aperture e.

By pressing down the post I and tube E, the lastnamed aperture can be brought opposite the opening c of the named compartment.

G is a spout, suspended from the under side of the bowl A, beneath the open lower ends of the tubes C E.

His a balance-beam, suspended from a pivot, 7i.,

that projects from the spout G, or other pendant ot'` the bowl.

I is a scale-dish, suspended from one end of the beam II under the discharge-end of the spout.

The opposite end of the beam is provided with pendent weights, J.

rIhe several kinds or grades of shot are placed in the several compartments b l).

Ihey can be successively inspected by bringing the opening of' the cover above the same.

Whenever it is desired to discharge part of the contents of one compartment, the opening in the cover is brought in line therewith, and then the post F is pressed down to bring the aperture c inline with the opening c of the open compartment.

lIhe shot will then flow through the openings c c into the tube Il, and thence into thevspout G, whence it is discharged into the scaledish I.

Then the desired quantity ofv shot has been collected within the dish I the post F is released, to be drawn up by the spring. Further discharge is thereby prevented. rIhe opening in the'cover may be held closed by a hinged or other lid, t'.

Having thus described my invention,

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Iatent- 'Ihe tube O-has an aperture, c, in line with each 1. The vertically;adjustable perforated tube E, arranged within the hollow center of a vessel, A, that is divided into several compartments, substantially' as and for the purposes herein shown and described.

2. "The cover D, arranged on the bowl A, and tted around the vertically-adj nstable post F and tube E, in such manner that its opening is in line with the opening c in thetube E, substantial] y as herein shown and described.`

SIN CLAIR BOOTON.

Witnesses: A. V. BRrnsE-N,

Gno. W. Munn. 

